Toward the north the activity of the day begins gradually to replace the nocturnal quiet; here the relief guard has passed clanking their arms, there the doctor is already hastening to the hospital, further on the soldier has crept out of his earth hut and is washing his sunburnt face in ice encrusted water, and, turning towards the crimsoning east, crosses himself quickly as he prays to God; here a tall and heavy camel-wagon has dragged creaking to the cemetery, to bury the bloody dead, with whom it is laden nearly to the ...
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Toward the north the activity of the day begins gradually to replace the nocturnal quiet; here the relief guard has passed clanking their arms, there the doctor is already hastening to the hospital, further on the soldier has crept out of his earth hut and is washing his sunburnt face in ice encrusted water, and, turning towards the crimsoning east, crosses himself quickly as he prays to God; here a tall and heavy camel-wagon has dragged creaking to the cemetery, to bury the bloody dead, with whom it is laden nearly to the top. You go to the wharf a peculiar odor of coal, manure, dampness, and of beef strikes you; thousands of objects of all sorts wood, meat, gabions, flour, iron, and so forth lie in heaps about the wharf; soldiers of various regiments, with knapsacks and muskets, without knapsacks and without muskets, throng thither, smoke, quarrel, drag weights aboard the steamer which lies smoking beside the quay; unattached two-oared boats, filled with all sorts of people, soldiers, sailors, merchants, women, land at and leave the wharf.
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Seller's Description:
Fair. No Jacket. No edition stated. No date-C.1890. 262 pages (complete). The original boards are edge worn, a bit chipped, damp stained through to some page edges-not affecting the text. But still remains strong. Tanning, previous ownership rubber stamp, markings within the book. However, it is still in fair condition considering age, excellent binding and intact. pages remains clear. MK.
